Appeal for new leader is affirmed
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
November 19, 2006

ARLINGTON -- Delegates at the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth convention on Saturday overwhelmingly affirmed Bishop Jack Iker's appeal for an alternative denomination leader to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who this month became the first woman to hold that post.

About 80 percent of the 188 clergy and lay delegates voted in favor of Iker's appeal to Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, leader of world Anglicanism, which includes the Episcopal Church.

Many who oppose Schori's leadership say her support of same-sex unions and views on other issues violate Scripture and church tradition.

Delegates meeting at St. Peter and St. Paul Episcopal Church also affirmed by about 80 percent Iker's request to disassociate from Province 7 of the Episcopal Church of the United States. That resolution states that the diocese wants to remain part of the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion, but wants to affiliate with a proposed new province based on like-mindedness rather than geography. Province 7 includes much of the Southwest. the rest